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CASH-CARRYING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION' nrmng part of Letters Patent No. 314,264-, dated fnrch24, 1885.

Application Filed .Fcbrn :ry i. 1835. (No niodei.)

`a track and elevator for placing the carrier upon it. Fig. 2 is anenlarged side View ofa portion of the track and the elevator with thecarrier therein in the act of being placed upon the track. Fig. 3 is anend view ofthe same upon the section-line A B of.Fig. 2. Fig. 4 isanother end view from the same position, with tlie elevator stillfurther raised in the operation of putting the carrier on the track.Fig. 5 is a side view of the track with a carrier-delivery attachmentsubstantially like that of my said former application, and a combinationof baskets arranged to receive the carrier as it falls through the drop'andA deliver it to the attendant below. Fig. 6 is an end view of Fig. 5upon the sectionline C D on the latter. Fig. 7 is a side view of aretarding device to separate the balls upon the track and prevent theirrolling against or too near each other on the track. Fig. 8 is an endview of the track and carrier upon the section-line A B of Fig. 7. Fig.9 is a side view of my improved carrier adapted t traverse the track.Fig. 10 is a vertical transverse section of the same. Fig. 11 is asideview of the removable cup which receives the cash. Fig. 12 is a frontend view ofthe same. Fig. 1-3 is a view of the hook which is used towithdraw the cup from the carrier to remove or replace the cash therein.

A2 is the track,whieh is suspended from theceilingby rods a a. Theserods are attached to 'framesa a', which sustain the trackrails a2 a2 andthe side braces, a3 a3. In two of the frames a are made sockets, inwhich the pivots a4 at are fitted to turn freely, and to these pivotsare attached two sections, a a5, of the l rails at' a2 hy short arms,soas to render the sections capable ot' either being brought in line withthe rails a2 a2 or of being swung around out of the way upon saidpivotsas described in my said former application. In' the presentinstance these rail-sections c5 a5 are allowed to swing freely upward,and are sustained inline with the rails a2 a.2 by brackets c a, attachedto the frames a a.

C is the carrier, which is cylindricahand has the treads c c of itswheels ci cl2 made to fit and travel on the rails a' fr'.

An elevator, E, is placed directly beneath the pivoted rail-sections a5a5. This elevator consists of the fixed upright rod e, on which travelsfreely up and down the sleeve e. This sleeve carries the short arm e2,which in turn supports the upright ci* and its attached platform c".This platform is hollowed or dished out to receive the carrier andsustain it in a position to bring its wheel-treads o c directly underthe rail-sections a5 a5 as the elevator rises. These rail -sectionsshould be made broad enough upon their lower faces to prevent-thewheel-treads from overlapping and catching upon them as the elevator israised, which may be accomplished by extending such lower faces outwardtoward the pivots or toward a line through the centers of the latter.

The platform e* ofthe elevator may be raised by acord attached to thesleeve e and pulley overhead, or by the downward extension of theupright e3, or in any other suitable Inanner. The carrier being placedin it, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, it is hoisted directly up, and therail-sections a5 ai) turn out of the way to allow the carrier andplatform to pass between them. VVhen the carrier-wheeltreads have passedupward from the position shown in Fig. 2 and 3 to that of Fig. 4, therail-seetions a5 cr" drop back to place beneath the treads, and theelevator descends, leaving the carrier on the track, when itrolls offtoward the desired station to which it is sent. In order to facilitatethe starting of the carrier after being placed upon the rail-sections a5a5 by the elevator, I make the pitch or incline of these rail-sectionssteeper than that of the rails of the track on either side of them. I

also attach to the elevator an upright arm behind the carrier e5, whichcurves upward and roo jecting directly toward each other.

over the periphery of thelatter, so as to allow it to be lifted out ofthe platform e4 as the elevator descends, and then comes in contact withthe back side of the carrier, pushing or starting it along on the track.

In Figs. 5 and 6 is shown an arrangement of baskets at thereceiving-station of my track which is simple and effective.

The delivery mechanism of the station is vconstructed substantially asshown and described in my said former application, and will therefore beeasily understood from a brief description.

Two rail-sections, Z b, are hung on pivots b b', as described for theelevator-sections a5 a5,- but, unlike the latter, they are free to dropdownward and outward. They are held in line with the rails a? a by thelever-hooks b2 b2, pivoted at bib, and having their upper arms pro-Between the ends of these arms a key or wedge, bt, is dropped, so as toprevent them from approaching each other and the lower ends of the hooksfrom escaping from under the pivoted rail-sections b l). This key slidesup and down in the bracket L, andhas attached to its lower end the shoeb5, so located as to come in contact with the proper carrier-wheel,andthus lift the key up from between the arms of hooks b2 b2, and hold itup while the carrier passes upon the rail-sections b b. The pressure ofthe earrier thus swings the rail-sections away `from under it, and thesepress to cach side the hooks b2 b2, and the carrier drops throughbetween them into the basket d. A li ghtspring, bl,compresses theleverhooks LZ bl together again after the carrier has passed through,and brings the rail-sections-b b back into line with rails a2 a2 again,when the key b4 drops in between the upper arms of the lever-hooks andlocks them in place. A ring, ci, on one of the carrier-wheelsis employedto lift key b", and when this ring is so placed as to pass to one sideof the shoe b5 the carrier passes over, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6,without dropping down into the basket d. Y This basket d is pivoted toan arm at d, the arm being attached to one ofthe frames a', as shown,and the pivot d being placed far enough down on the side of the basketto cause it to empty itself when allowed to swing freely upon thispivot.

l On the opposite sides of the basket d, and n ear the other end fromits pivot, are fastened to its rim eyes di d3, to which cords arefastened,which pass over two small pulleys, d2 d2, attached to theopposite sides of one of the frames a. These cords unite into one atsome distance below the track, and are fastened to a fixed pin withinreach of an attendant, below. When the attendant perceives that acarrier has dropped into basket d, he releases these cords, and thebasket, being released at that side, turns upon its pivot d and emptiesits contents into a second basket, d4, hung so as to receive the carrierfrom the first. This second basket d* is suspended by cords on each sideto the ends of a spring-roller, d5, extending across the top of framea', to which it is attached by a suitable bracket, the cords being woundupon the ends of this roller of sufficient length to allow the basket d#when they are unwound,to descend to an attendant beneath. Thespring-roller d5 is of any ordinary and well-known construction, and itsspring is strong enough to hold the basket d* in position under basketfl,- but whenthe carrier is dumped into it out of the latter the addedweight will cause it to descend automatically. In the meantime theattendant, by pulling upon the cords passing over pulleys d2 d?, hasrestored the basket d to place under the track, ready t'or'anothercarrier, and by relnoving the carrier from basket d* the latter willautomatically ascend to its original position.

In Figs. 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 is shown the improved carrier C, I havedevised for use upon the described track and appliances. It consistsmerely of an axle, c, and two wheels, c2 ci, having wheel-threads c cand a flange, c3, around one of them. `The wheels c2 cAl each revolveindependently upon the axle, and the axle is free to Arevolve by a thirdand independent movement on the wheels. The axle is made hollow, andlarge enough to receive the cash or parcel to be carried within it. Ithus enable the wheels to move independently in passing around curves inthe track, and with no substantial added friction, the independentmotion of the axle avoiding this difiieulty, and I am also able to makethe wheels large and heavy, so as to roll easily upon the track, withoutthereby adding to the friction upon the axle, as is the case when theweight is added to the body of a common carriage.

In order to keep the wheels in place upon the axle, I attach to the endsofthe latter flanges c c", and I have shown a central iiange, c5,between the wheels, to avoid too great friction between their innerfaces; but an annular projection upon one ofthe latter may be substituted for this middle iiange. Each wheel iits loosely between thefianges and around the axle, thus insuring the least friction.

The wheels may be made of wood, fiber, leathl eroid, or any well-knownsimilar material.

The cavity within the axle, owing to the independent rotary motion ofthe latter, requires no appliances to hold the cash in the middle of it,and the cash or a small bundle may be placed directly in it, or in adrawer or other receptacle, or it may be provided with a suitablecoveror covers, as desired; but the attachments I have adapted to it forconvenience are as follows: I make of thin metal a cylindrical cup, m,open at one end and closed at the other, and fitted to just slide intothe bore of the axle c. A fixed cap,c, is attached to the axle to closeit. Near the open end of the cup m I expand the metal outward slightly,and cut longitudinal slots m m a short distance apart through thisexpanded IOO portion ofthe metal.

formed around it, which, by its pressure upon the inside of the axle,lprevents the cup coming out until forcibly withdrawn. To accomplish thisand save space, I provide the outer closed end of the cup with asoeketed piece, m2, having a slot, m3, in its outer face and a chamberlarger than the slot in at least one direction, and in two [directionsas I have shown it. I provide a T-shaped hook, m, fitted to be insertedin the s lot and turned so as to catch its end under the piece m2, whenthe cup m may be withdrawn. This socketed piece m2 may be placed insidethe cup, and the slot m3 made through the exposed end of the cup intoits chamber, if desired. -In order to better insure the retention of thecup in the carrier-axle, I enlarge the bore of the latter where itsurrounds the slots m m' and the enlargement of the cup through whichthey are cut when the cup is seated in place in the axle.

By this construction ot' the parts I produce a carrier with smooth facesfor passing off of and upon the track, as described. and one which willroll down a comparatively slight incline, and without the aid of devicesto give it an impulse,when placed upon t-he track, as the act of doingthis is sure to produce a movement of-the axle and wheels upon oneanother, which starts it rolling.

If the cup m be made of metal, I line it with rubber or felt or someother elastic medium, to prevent the change from rattling in A it, orroll thelatter in the same before placing itin the cup. The use of a cupopen at the end enables the attendant to handle and insert and removethe change very quickly.'

It is evident that with my elevator mechanism either the arm e5 or thegreater pitch of` the track-sections ai a5 alone can be used to as! sistthe starting of the carrier on the track, if desired. It is also evidentthat one ofthe wheels cl may be rigidly fixed to the hollow axle c' ofthe carrier C, leaving the other free to revolve thereon, and some ofthe advantages of this form of carrier be retained; but I prefer theconstruction before described.

l t is found that in many cases carriers will roll along the track,rubbing and striking against each other, and not only injuring thecarriers, but interfering with their progress along the track andcausing a delivery-section of the track in some instances to be chokedor blocked by a second carrier following the one passing through tooclosely. To avoid all these difculties 4I have devised what I term aretardingdevice7 constructed as followsr At some place on the track A2(see Figs. 7 and 8) I attach to two of the frames a' a two other frames,a a, by means of lugs a a', fitted to pins nia?, on which they are freeto play up and down. The frames an are secured rigidly together. at topand bottom by bars a n3, above and below the path of the carriers, so

When the cup is pressd` into the bore of axle c', au elast-ic band isthus that they will move together. 0n top of the bar a3, below thecarriers, is fixed another bar, at, in such position that Ythe carrierwill run onto it and depress the frame a a .n3 a3, which is held up byspiral springs on the upper pins, a2 ai, under its upper lugs, an.Attached to the upper lug, a', on the end from which the carriers comeover the track, is a bar, n5,whicli is so adjusted that when the frame na n? ai is raised by the springs it is above the path ot' the carriers,but when the frame is pressed down by a carrier passing over bar n* it1s projected into thepath of the carriers. I he beveled end of bar at,upon which a carrier `first runs, is just far enough along down thetrack from the bar a5 to cause the latter to de- 'scend behind thatcarrier before it has fully passed from under it. The track at a, justahead of the barn, is also moved with a steeper pitch than otherportions, as shown in Fig. 7. \Vhen two carriers come along the trackclose together, as shown, the first one after passing under bar a5 runsonto bar a, and thus brings down bar a5 into the path ofthe followingcarrier and arrests it until the rsthas passed off of bar at, when thesecond carrier will be released and the two will travel over the trackseparated by the distance between the bar a5 and the farther end of barat, and cease to interfere with each other. The steeper pitch of thetrack at a assists the second carrier to start when released by the bar.

It is obvious that other forms of connection IOS work in unison;buttheir relative positions must always be so that they arelongitudinally on the track nearer to each other than the diameter ofthe carrier, in order to enable bar a5 to enter the space within andbetween the peripheries ofthe carriers and arrest the second one.

YVhat I claim as new and of my invention 1s- 1. In the elevated trackA2, the combination of the rail-seotions a5 a5, pivoted on axessubstantially parallel to the track, with an elevator mechanism adaptedto elevate the carrierwheels past and above said rail-sections and allowthe latter to drop beneath the carrierwheels, substantially asdescribed.

2. In the elevated track A2, in combination IIO with the rails aic62/the pivoted rail-section a5 a5, placed at a steeper pitch or inclinethan the izo Rand the curved arm e5, attached thereto and adjusted atsuch a distance from the carrier as to enable it to strike thelatter onthe rear side as the elevator `descends after depositing the carrierupon the track, substantially as described.

4. The combination, in the elevated track A2, of the pivotedrail-sections b b, the basket d under the track, provided with hinges orpivots allowing it to be reversed, and with devices for reversing thesaine, substantially as described, andthe falling and rising basket d,with elevating and lowering devices attached thereto, substantially asset forth and described.

5. The combination, in the elevated track A2, of the pivotcdrailsections b b, the basket d under the track, provided with hinges orpivots allowing it to be reversed, and with devices for reversing` thesame, substantially as described, and the automatically falling andrising basket d", with automatic elevating and lowering mechanismattached thereto, substantially as set forth and described.

6. In the carrier 0,'the combination of the hollow axle c' with thewheels c2 ci, said holv low axle being adapted to receive and retain thecash therein, substantially as described.

7. In the carrier C. the combination of the hollow axle c', providedwith wheel-retaining flanges c" c* and the wheels c2 o2, said hollowaxle being adapted to receive and retain the cash therein, substantiallyas described.

8. In the carrier C, the combination of the wheels c2 ci, the hollowaxle c, and the cup or receptacle m, fitted to the interior of saidaxle, substantially as described.

9. In the carrier C, the combination of the hollow axle d, the wheelsclz c2, and the flange c3, attached to one of said wheels, substantiallyas described.

10. In the carrier G, the combination of the hollow axle c', providedwith flanges c c, the wheels c2 c2, and their separating-flange c5,substantially as described.

1l. In the carrier C, in combination with the axial cavity therein, thecash-cupm, provided with an enlarged annular portion having slots m mtherein, forming springs around said cup adapted to bear against thewall of said cavity, substantially as described.

l2. In the carrier C, in combination with the axial cavity therein, thecup m, provided with the slot m2 in its exposed end, and a chamberbeneath said slot larger than the slot transversely ofthela-tter,substantially as described.

13. In the carrier C, the combination of the wheels e2 cz with thehollow axle c', the latter having the cavity within it closed at one endand open at the other, substantially as described.

li. In combination with the track A, the bar n, placed in the path ofthe carrier and adapted to be moved aside by the carrier passing thesame, connecting devices substantially as set forth, and the bar ai),connected to bar a" thereby, and adjusted to be projected within thepath of the carrier as the bar nt is moved away therefrom at a pointbehind the latter and within a distance from its center equal to itsdiameter, substantially as described.

l l5. In combination with the track A2 and i the carrier C, theretarding-bar 115, adaptedto move into and out ot the path ofthecarrier, l and mechanism, substantially as set forth, automaticallyoperated by the carrier and connected to said bar, adapted to move saidbar into the path ofthe carrier behindit and within a distance from itscenter equal to its diameter, and to hold said bar in that positionwhile said carrier passes over a predetermined length ot' said track,and then to automatically withdraw the same, substantially as described.

16. In combination with the track A2, made with a steeper pitch or gradethan its normal one at @15, the bar a5, adapted to be projected into thepath of the carrier, connected mechanism, substantially as set forth,adapted to be operated by the carrier and so project it, and the carrierC, substantially as described.

DAVID HALL RICE.

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N. I. OcKINGToN,

WILLIAM P. BLAKE.

